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MSC-62
ex-AMS-62


Adjutant served the Portuguese Navy
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as AMS-62 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY
  • Completed 12 August 1953 and transferred to Portugal as NRP Angra Do Heroísmo (M 407)
  • Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-62, 7 February 1955
  • Discarded in 1973
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 405 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 27'
  • Draft 9'
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 40
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two 450shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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    MSC-62 107k Namesake: Angra Do Heroísmo or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores Tommy Trampp
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